About Wave Paper
Established in 1991. 35 years of packaging expertise.
To redefine the future of corrugated packaging through world-class innovation, sustainable manufacturing, and environmentally conscious solutions that set new industry standards.
To help businesses solve packaging, logistics, and product protection challenges through innovative, practical, and sustainable corrugated packaging solutions.
Our story
Wave Paper's story began in 1991, in the garage of founder Andrew Gourley's parents, with a simple belief: packaging should do more than contain a product. It should solve a problem.
With a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a passion for finding practical solutions, Andrew recognised an opportunity to address the challenges businesses faced in protecting their products during storage and transportation. Rather than relying on conventional approaches, he designed and built Wave Paper's first machine himself, establishing the engineering-led and innovative mindset that remains central to the business today.
What began as a small, family-founded operation has grown into an established South African corrugated packaging manufacturer, serving customers across a diverse range of industries. Throughout this growth, Wave Paper has remained committed to the principles on which it was founded: understanding its customers' challenges, building lasting relationships, and developing packaging solutions that deliver meaningful value.
Today, with more than three decades of manufacturing experience, Wave Paper combines technical expertise, modern manufacturing capabilities, and an innovative approach to corrugated packaging. Our focus extends beyond simply supplying boxes. We work closely with our customers to identify opportunities to improve product protection, optimise packaging designs, streamline processes, and reduce costs throughout the supply chain.
While the business has evolved considerably since its beginnings in a family garage, our philosophy remains unchanged: understand the problem, challenge conventional thinking, and engineer a better solution.
Our director, Andrew Gourley, receiving an award in the Export category of the 1993 South African Gold Pack Awards.
Grid-independent. Supply-chain resilient.
Power independence
Wave Paper is fully independent from the power grid. Load-shedding has zero impact on our production schedule. Your orders ship on time, regardless of what the grid is doing.
Water independence
We maintain sufficient water reserves in tanks to sustain full operations for a period of two months. Water outages, like power outages, do not interrupt our manufacturing.
In South Africa's current infrastructure environment, this is not a nice-to-have. It's a critical supply-chain guarantee that our competitors cannot match.
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